Pressing machine



June 28, 1932. p, BRAUN 1,864,525

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ATTORNEYfi,

Patented June 28, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PHILIP N. BRAUY OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE PROSPERITY COMPANY INC OESYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK PBESSIN G MACHINE Application filed July 10, 1926, Serial No. 121,533. Renewed December 5, 1930.

This invention relates to the art of pressing garments and has for its object a process or method of ironing, pressing, smoothing or shaping by blowing a blast of heated air through the garment in such a way as to shape the garment or other article and also a particularly simple and eflicient pressing machine for carrying out the method.

The invention consists in the method or process, and in the novel features of the machine for carryin out the method, hereinafter set forth an claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pressing machine embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken vertically through the buck and the press head.

Figure 3 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view through one of the bucks and contiguous parts.

Figure 4 is an enlarged detail'sectional view through the air pipe from the blower showing the valve for controlling the flow of air.

Figure 5 is a detail view of a shirt sleeve.

This method consists in ironing or smoothing out the garment by blowing a blast of air therethrough to dry and straighten or smooth out the fabric thereof so that it will hold its shape, particularly a garment that is round or tubular in form as shirt sleeves.

Themachine here illustrated is particularly adapted to press shirt sleeves, and both sleeves of a shirt at the same time. i

As it is constructed to press both sleeves at the same time, the machine includes a pair of bucks I each mounted on a goose neck 2 which in turn is mounted on the frame 3 of the machine, and a pair of heads 4 movable toward and from the bucks 1, both heads being carried by a single yoke lever 5. The yoke lever is pivoted at 6 between its ends to the frame and is actuated in any well .known or suitable manner to carry the heads 4 toward and from the bucks 1. The coopcrating faces of the bucks 1 and heads 2 are v respectively convex and concave. Both the heads and the bucks are formed hollow for the reception of a heating medium as steam.

In ironing or pressing shirt sleeves, it is essential to press the outer side of the sleeve which is visible when the shirt is used and also the gussets 7 adjacent the cuff. It is not so important to press out the under side of the shirt sleeve by pressure and it is entirely satisfactory to merelyv dry and straighten the fabric or smooth the wrinkles out of the same.

In ironing or pressing the sleevs of a shirt, the sleeves are slipped on the bucks from one end thereof with the outer half or portion outside of the sleeve overlying the working face of the buck. Also, when the sleeve is so arranged, the gusset 7 will overlie the working or pressing face of the buck. The head or heads 4 are then brought down and the portion of the sleeve on the pressing face of the buck is pressed. The remainder of the sleeve is dried and pressed or smoothed by blowing a heated blast of air therethrough.

As here illustrated, this blast of air is supplied from a blower 8 connected by a conduit 9 to a heating chamber 10 having an outlet pipe 11 which is bifurcated and the branches 12 thereof connected to the interiors of the goose necks.

Each goose neck is provided on the side toward the free end of the buck with an outlet 13 so that when the blast of airis 85 blowing, it will pass through the sleeve and extend it out into its full formand hence dry and smooth out the wrinkles therein.

In order that the blast of air may blow only when the press head is down, means as a valve or damper 15 is provided in the outlet 11 which is open when the heads 4 are down and closed when the heads 4 are up. As here illustrated, this valve 15 is mounted on a rock shaft 16 having a rock arm 17 thereon connected by a link 18 to one arm of an angle lever 19 pivoted to the frame, the other arm of which is connected by 121; link 20 to the yoke 5 to move therewit I WhlCh It is here shown as connected to an arm 21 projecting from the pivot of the yoke 5 ivot rocks with the shaft. Thus, when t e head is down, a hot blast of air blows through the sleeves removing any wrinkles and drying the same.

The heating chamber has coils 22 therein usuallyconnected in the steam system of the machine. Also, the chamber has deflectors 23 therein to cause the air to take a tortuous path through the chamber 10.

The buck is provided with deflectors 24 on the under side thereof to direct the current of air downwardly against the sleeve, and also a bafile 25 is provided at the end of the buck, this being a downward and inward extension of the end of the layer of Wire mesh 26 forming part of the usual padding of the buck. The part 25 yielding retards the air causing it to make, the sleeve bulge or balloon out and thus straighten out all wrinkles in the fibres or threads.

What I claim is:

1. In a pressing machine, a support for a tubular article sleeved on said support,

said support having a pressing face over which a portion of the article lies, means for pressing the portion of the article on the support, and means for blowing air .through the tubular article lengthwise thereof.

2. In a pressing machine, a support for a tubular article sleeved on said support, the

' support having a working face over which a portion of said article lies, means for ironing the portion of the article overlying the working face, and means for blowing air through the remainder of the article off the working face of the support.

3. A pressing machine, a buck, a hollow goose neck on which the buck is mounted, A the goose neck having an outlet passage on one side directed along the under face of the buck and means for supplying a current of air to the goose neck. 4. A pressing element for a garment press comprising a supporting member, a pressing member having one end secured to the supporting member in such manner as to ermit a garment to be sleeved over the pressmg member, and having a pressing surface, the supporting member being formed with an air chamber having an opening at the under side of the pressing element, a blower 1 associated with said chamber, all whereby air may be blown through that portion of the garment extending below the pressing surface of the pressing member.

5. A pressing element for a garment press comprising a support, a'pressing member associated with said support and having a pressing surface, said pressing member being supported by said support at one end, and the remainder of the pressing member extending from said support, whereby a garment may be sleeved over said pressing memher, the support having a passage opening at the under side of the pressing member, and means associated with said su port for blowing air through that portion of the garment not contacting with the pressing surface of the pressing member.

6. In a pressing machine, a horizontal support for a tubular article sleeved on the support with a portion only thereof engaging the support, means for holding said portion against the support, and means for blowing air horizontally and parallel to said support through the inside of the remaining portion of the tubular article.

7 A garment or laundry pressing machine for sleeved articles, such as shirts and the like, including in combination a first buck formed so that one sleeve of a shirt may be drawn thereover; a second buck mounted close enough to the first buck and formed so that theother sleeve of the shirt may be drawn over the second buck; pressing faces on both of said bucks; a head member having faces formed thereon for cooperative pressing action with both of the bucks; and means for moving the pressing faces into and out of pressing contact.

8. A garment or laundry lgressing machine for sleeved articles, such as s irts and the like, including in combination, a frame; a first buck mounted on the frame and having an overhanging portion formed so that one sleeve of a shirt may be drawn thereover; a second buck similarly mounted on the frame adjacent the first buck and formed so that the other sleeve of the shirt may be drawn over the second buck; pressing faces on both'of said bucks; a member movably mounted on the frame and provided with a pair of pressing faces, one for cooperative pressing action with each of said bucks; and means for movingkthe pressing head toward and from the no s.

9. In a garment or laundry pressing ma- 1 chine in combination a buck formed to have a sleeve, or other tubular portion, of a garment pulled thereover; means for blowing air lengthwise through that portion of the sleeve which hangs down under the buck; and deflectors formed on the lower side of the buck for turning a portion of the air current against the sides of the sleeve to dry the same hangs down under the buck; a bafile mounted on the under side of the buck adjacent the other end thereof for restricting the free exit of air therefrom so that pressure in the sleeve will be increased, to cause said sleeve to bal loon; and deflectors formed on the bottom of the buck to turn a portion of the air current against the sleeve, between the end portions,

to increase the drying and ballooning caused by the air flow.

11. In a garment or laundry pressing machine in combination a buck formed to have a sleeve, or other tubular portion, of a garment pulled thereover;apressin faceformed on the side of the buck; a pressing head for cooperative pressing action with the buck; and means for blowing air through that portion of the sleeve which was not located on the pressing face of the buck, to cause that 1; portion of the sleeve to balloon, and dry while ballooned, during the time that the other portion of the sleeve is being pressed between the head and buck.

12. In a garment or laundry pressing machine in combination a buck formed to have a tubular portion of a garment, such as the sleeve of a shirt, sleeved thereon; a pressing face formed on the upper side of the buck;

a pressing head movable toward and from the pressing face for cooperative pressing action therewith; mechanism to operate the movable v pressing head; and means for blowing air lengthwise along the bottom of the buck, inside of the sleeve, to balloon that portion of 80 the sleeve below the buck, and dry the same while ballooned, during the time that the pressing head is pressing the portion of the sleeve oyerlying the buck.

13. In a garment or laundry pressing machine in combination cooperative pressing elements, one of which is movable with respect to the other, and one of which is formed to have a sleeve drawn thereover so that a part of the sleeve overlies the pressing face, and

the rest of the sleeve hangs under the pressing element; means to blow .air lengthwise through a part of the sleeve, which hangsv under the pressing element, to dry said sleeve; actuating mechanism for the movable pressing element; a valve to control the supply of air; and means connected to the valve and operated by the actuating mechanism to open said valve when the pressing elements are together in pressing contact, and to close said 5:) valve when the pressing elements are not in pressing contact.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed'my name at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and State of New York, this 29 day of June, 1926.

PHILIP N. BRAUN. 

